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astic senators, Madeleine, who had worked in a Gov­
ernment office for many years, just stood up and
told them that she wouldn 't like to be in THEI R
shoes when people found out what was being kept
from them.
Did they think the public was blind?
Many had seen the planes chasing the saucers.
Even children.
And Madeleine had come out of the committee­
room seething with anger. A few weeks afterwards
she had filmed a scout-ship over her own "front
yard".
Fred loosened up a little as we sped along the
road
Brussels-Antwerp.
Patrick,
who
studied
at
Brussels University, and who himself lectured on
flying saucers, was a good driver, but fast!
" Madeleine was at the airport as we left Washing ­
ton. Oh, and Lind a, her friend , was with her. You
know, that young woman who had some sightings.
She's written to you, I think. A nice girl. There were
two Brothers standing back a bit in the crowd. They
weren't with Madeleine. Maybe she knew they were
there. "
He went on talking about some of the Brothers he
had met. Ingrid joined in occasionally, her eyes
bright and shi ning.
" Oh, Ronald!" she said, in her German -accented
American, drawling the words. " If you only could
meet them! There is this wonderful feeling of good­
ness that seems to reach out to you. "
Fred's rather serious face relaxed a little as he
spoke. One could see he was no fanatic. Fred Steck­
ling and Ingrid were not money-grabbing "contact­
ees" making a fast buck. Th ey spoke quietly, but
forcefully at times. Perhaps Fred could not quite
shake off this fee ling of having to convince someone
all the time.
" Ronald," he said, after a rather long, somewhat
tired silence. They'd been travell ing for many, many
hours. " Ron ald, do you know, it's just as if they have
our frequencies. I had a birthday a while back -"
Ingrid was about to burst in with wife-like enthusiasm
but Fred 's voice stopped her. " I had a birthday a
while back," Fred went on. " Ingrid and I were wat­
ching T.V. I don't re member the show. Suddenly -"
and
again
Ingrid
was
bursting
with
agreement,
"- sudden ly it went doot-di-di-doot-doot, on the T.V.
just like that, maybe ten or a dozen times. Doot-di­
di-doot-doot. Ingrid and I just looked at each other ­
and then we both DASHED out onto the porch."
Patrick swerved among the traffic on a bumpy
patch of road.
" Th ere over the house was the saucer. It just
swayed there, back and forward . Then it seemed to
swing down low as the light showed from the porch
and then shot off over in the direction of Washing­
ton Airport. "
Ingrid cou ldn't hold herself any longer. " And do
you know, Ronald !" she burst in, "Madeleine had the
same thing happen on her birthday! Linda and some
more friends were just being seen off from the house
and they called out to Madeleine to look. And there
was this red , glowing light swaying over the house! "
Fred smiled knowingly.
" You can bet, they've got our wave-lengths! " he
said.
As we looked out at May's long lily-pond in the
spacious lawn, the big, leafy trees almost overhang­
ing the house and splashing the ground with shadow,
Fred gave a little laugh to himself and glanced up
at me. He was so often serious, especially when he
talked to the people who gathered at May's house,
guests, reporters etc, - it was nice to see him with
a, somewhat twisted, grin. There were no gimmicks
with Fred.
" I saw a saucer close overhead some while ago. ­
There are a LOT of them around that area -
I had
my camera with me, this camera - and I ran off some
film and I felt so gosh-darned pleased with myself!
D'you know something? I left the dust-cap on!"
He told me of his talks with the Brothers.
" D'you know, Ronald, when you 're with them, you
don't ASK questions. You don't think of it. You just
listen. It's as if you are not meant to ask of things
maybe they don't want you to know."
Fred bit his lip thoughfully.
" One of them I can see several times a week. I
know where he's working. I can tell you what sort
of work he does, but not where. " Fred told me.
" It 's only once in a while we have a chance to
talk. Maybe over a cup of coffee some place."
He paused, then went on.
" This one's from Venus."
Fred's trip over had been delayed. Hans and I had
had to change our bookings. Fred had told me on
the trip up from the airport how someone, - he didn't
know who - had contacted the bank where Fred had
arranged credit for the trip.
" I have to do it on the instalments," he said. "A
cook doesn't earn all that much money." Fred works
at an hotel in Virgini a, near where he lives.
Th e strange thing was that Fred had previously
had credit arrangements with the same bank, and
had had no bother. Maybe someone had tried to stop
his trip to Europe. It had taken several days to clear
up the matter.
He was speaking first in Antwerp, staying with
May for some days, then The Hague, then Frankfurt
and Mannheim, then in Austria -
Vienna and Linz ­
then on to West Berlin for the last six days to stay
with his family.
Whether Fred was helped with money at the Ger­
man or Austrian lectures, I don 't know. I know he
received nothing in Antwerp and Den Haag, except
hospitality from good friends . That certainly did not
pay the Stecklings fare across the Atlantic.
Fred 's fi rst lecture was on the evening of our arr­
ival in Antwerp, at May Morlet's home. Of the 50-60
in the audience, which included reporters, I noticed
a young woman. I sh al I not describe her.
Later that night, in fact at 3.30 in the morning, ­
we had sat t alking, all of May's house-guests, until
the small hours, as we were to do every night of our
visit -
I walked with Ha.ns Petersen around some
There is no doubt that a great number of the
meteoric falls actually are
remains of " natural"
objects in space - but not by any means all of them.
No doubt also, some of the falls of ice are from
aircraft de-icing or breaking off by some other
means; the theory about ice from the toilets is very
doubtful, but even if we give this theory a certain
chance, then it still explains on ly a very small part
of the total number of reported falls.
Until the Rocket-age's attempts to explain condit­
ions in the Space around us began, a remarkab le
attitude prevailed within certain scientific circles in
regard to that Space.
Earth was the navel of the Cosmos, around which
and about which everything turn ed. The moon and
the planets and the stars were hung in the sky for
Earth's sake, and between all the bodies outside of
Earth 's atmosphere was this great empty Space, in
which was to be found -
absolutely nothing.
But the rockets told another story - they had been
out there. We can say then, that now it is proven
th at Space is not empty. Am ong other things, dust
has been ·registered. And it has become dusty in the
space-capsule when t he capsu le door has stood
open.
It is proven also, that certain chemical reactions
can, in the course of a few seconds, form solid
matter. (Einstein) .
As all the planets are born in the same Cosmos,
this means to say th at the same elements or units
which make up the "creation" are to be fou nd in
invisible form in this so-cal led empty Space. It
" only" needs the right chemi cal reaction to take
place for the who le to take solid form and to build
up as planets, comets, meteorites or ice - or for th at
matter, as many other things.
It is therefore quite plain to see that science can,
and must, soon add a new chapter to that book about
the " factual" conditions in Space, which it is writing
at this time. In this " book" it will be stated th at,
under certain conditions, solid matter is formed in
empty Space -
as we ll as much else -
matter that
can later fall onto this planet or others as " shooting­
stars" or as ice from an airplane's toilet.
And it will be enorm ously difficult, -
yes, almost
impossible, - to differentiate between what are rem­
ains of solid bodies, such as planets, comets or
asteroids, and what is produced by some other
means. One might point to evidence of bacteria, but
this just will not do, because bacteria can be gath­
ered up from anywhere in the Cosmos. For example,
our planet, just the same as other planets, has,
during its journey through space, trailed behind itself
a long tail of dust and bacteria. This dust and th ese
bacteria are caught up at some time or another by
other heavenly bodies, in the same manner that we
collect dust and bacteria from other worlds.
In fact, we need not go to al l the great amount of
trouble that we do, to steri lize the space-ships and
probes which are to be sent up ; -
our bacteria has
long been present on our sister planets and many
other planets, just as " their bacteria" has been a
long, long wh ile living with us.
Thus there exists great unexplored areas of res­
earch with which science can come to grips and
learn from ; and when, finally, these are explained,
th e next natural step wil l be to learn how one can
come to live without being " infected" by bacteria.
We are on the way; but for a while yet we shall
be " infected" by bacteria, and believe that we can
" infect" our sister planets' inhabitants with our bac­
teri a. For a while yet we shall only find meteorites
that originate from planets, comets or asteroids, and
ice which falls from the toi let-systems of airplanes.
October 1966.
Here, in a report just rece ived from the United
States, is an important break-through into the area
of research mentioned in the afore-going article. With
precision timing, we now perceive that "- through
condensation this dust eventually forms meteorites
which are dense enough to be attracted to a pla­
net -".
From: Los Angeles " Herald-Examiner", Sunday,
January 22nd 1967.
»L.A. Man finds Life in Space«
THERE IS LIFE IN SPACE!
Ch lorophyll, key compound of life on earth, exists
abundantly in outer space.
Th ese findings have been reported to a gathering
of experts on Astronomy and Biodynamics meeting
at the University of California at Berkeley by Dr.
Fred Johnson of Electro-Optical Systems in Pasa­
dena.
Based on his findings, Dr. Johnson told the Berke­
ley colloquium the possibility that man is not alone
in the universe is excellent.
The physicist, astronomer and biochemist told the
Berkeley sessions, wh ich opened Friday, that after
13 years of research he had been able to identify
interstellar dust and had fou nd it is composed larg­
ely of the solid molecular substance chlorophyl l and
not ice or graphite as had been previously believed.
" There is no reason to believe that we on thi s
planet are unique", Dr. Johnson told the Herald­
Examiner. " There is very good evidence, on the
other hand, that there may be simi lar forms of life
throughout the universe".
Dr. Johnson reported that although interstellar dust
is very small with each grain having an average
density of 10 to 26 grams per cubic centimeter, he
specu lates that throug h condensation this dust even­
tually forms meteorites which are dense enough to
be attracted to a planet.
SIMPLE PLANTS.
These meteorites, he said, then deposit the life
substance ch lorophyll and, as on earth, undergo the